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Chapter 1The prophet complains of the sins of Judah and Jerusalem, and exhorts them to a sincere conversion.
Chapter 2All nations shall flow to the Church of Christ. The Jews shall be rejected for their sins. Idolatry shall be destroyed.
Chapter 3The confusion and other evils that shall come upon the Jews for their sins. The pride of their women shall be punished.
Chapter 4After an extremity of evils that shall fall upon the Jews, a remnant shall be comforted by Christ.
Chapter 5The reprobation of the Jews is foreshown under the parable of a vineyard. A woe is pronounced against sinners: the army of God shall send against them.
Chapter 6A glorious vision, in which the prophet's lips are cleansed: he foretells the obstinacy of the Jews.
Chapter 7The prophet assures King Achaz that the two kings his enemies shall not take Jerusalem. A virgin shall conceive and bear a son.
Chapter 8The name of a child that is to be born: many evils shall come upon the Jews for their sins.
Chapter 9What joy shall come after afflictions by the birth and kingdom of Christ; which shall flourish for ever. Judgments upon Israel for their sins.
Chapter 10Woe to the makers of wicked laws. The Assyrian shall be a rod for punishing Israel: but for their pride they shall be destroyed: and a remnant of Israel saved.
Chapter 11Of the spiritual kingdom of Christ, to which all nations shall repair.
Chapter 12A canticle of thanksgiving for the benefits of Christ.
Chapter 13The desolation of Babylon.
Chapter 14The restoration of Israel after their captivity. The parable or song insulting over the king of Babylon. A prophecy against the Philistines.
Chapter 15A prophecy of the desolation of the Moabites.
Chapter 16The prophet prays for Christ's coming. The affliction of the Moabites for their pride.
Chapter 17Judgments upon Damascus and Samaria. The overthrow of the Assyrians.
Chapter 18A woe to the Ethiopians, who fed Israel with vain hopes, their future conversion.
Chapter 19The punishment of Egypt: their call to the Church.
Chapter 20The ignominious captivity of the Egyptians, and the Ethiopians.
Chapter 21The destruction of Babylon by the Medes and Persians: a prophecy against the Edomites and the Arabians.
Chapter 22The prophet laments the devastation of Judah. He foretells the deprivation of Sobna, and the substitution of Eliacim, a figure of Christ.
Chapter 23The destruction of Tyre. It shall be repaired again after seventy years.
Chapter 24The judgments of God upon all the sinners of the world. A remnant shall joyfully praise him.
Chapter 25A canticle of thanksgiving for God's judgments and benefits.
Chapter 26A canticle of thanks for the deliverance of God's people.
Chapter 27The punishment of the oppressors of God's people. The Lord's favour to his Church.
Chapter 28The punishment of the Israelites, for their pride, intemperance, and contempt of religion. Christ the cornerstone.
Chapter 29God's heavy judgments upon Jerusalem, for their obstinacy: with a prophecy of the conversion of the Gentiles.
Chapter 30The people are blamed for their confidence in Egypt. God's mercies towards his Church. The punishment of sinners.
Chapter 31The folly of trusting to Egypt, and forgetting God. He will fight for his people against the Assyrians.
Chapter 32The blessings of the reign of Christ. The desolation of the Jews, and prosperity of the Church of Christ.
Chapter 33God's revenge against the enemies of his Church. The happiness of the heavenly Jerusalem.
Chapter 34The general judgment of the wicked.
Chapter 35The joyful flourishing of Christ's kingdom: in his Church shall be a holy and secure way.
Chapter 36Sennacherib invades Judah: his blasphemies.
Chapter 37Hezekiah, his mourning and prayer. God's promise of protection. The Assyrian army is destroyed. Sennacherib is slain.
Chapter 38Hezekiah being advertised that he shall die, obtains by prayer a prolongation of his life: in confirmation of which the sun goes back. The canticle of Hezekiah.
Chapter 39Hezekiah shows all his treasures to the ambassadors of Babylon: upon which Isaiah foretells the Babylonish captivity.
Chapter 40The prophet comforts the people with the promise of the coming of Christ to forgive their sins. God's almighty power and majesty.
Chapter 41The reign of the just one: the vanity of idols.
Chapter 42The office of Christ. The preaching of the gospel to the Gentiles. The blindness and reprobation of the Jews.
Chapter 43God comforts his Church, promising to protect her for ever: he expostulates with the Jews for their ingratitude.
Chapter 44God's favour to his Church. The folly of idolatry. The people shall be delivered from captivity.
Chapter 45A prophecy of Cyrus, as a figure of Christ, the great deliverer of God's people.
Chapter 46The idols of Babylon shall be destroyed. Salvation is promised through Christ.
Chapter 47God's judgment upon Babylon.
Chapter 48He reproaches the Jews for their obstinacy: he will deliver them out of their captivity, for his own name's sake.
Chapter 49Christ shall bring the Gentiles to salvation. God's love to his Church is perpetual.
Chapter 50The synagogue shall be divorced for her iniquities. Christ for her sake will endure ignominious afflictions.
Chapter 51An exhortation to trust in Christ. He shall protect the children of his Church.
Chapter 52Under the figure of the deliverance from the Babylonish captivity, the Church is invited to rejoice for her redemption from sin. Christ's kingdom shall be exalted.
Chapter 53A prophecy of the passion of Christ.
Chapter 54The Gentiles, who were barren before, shall multiply in the Church of Christ: from which God's mercy shall never depart.
Chapter 55God promises abundance of spiritual graces to the faithful, that shall believe in Christ out of all nations, and sincerely serve him.
Chapter 56God invites all to keep his commandments: the Gentiles that keep them shall be the people of God: the Jewish pastors are reproved.
Chapter 57The infidelity of the Jews: their idolatry. Promises to humble penitents.
Chapter 58God rejects the hypocritical fasts of the Jews: recommends works of mercy, and sincere godliness.
Chapter 59The dreadful evil of sin is displayed, as the great obstacle to all good from God: yet he will send a Redeemer, and make an everlasting covenant with his Church.
Chapter 60The light of true faith shall shine forth in the Church of Christ, and shall be spread through all nations, and continue for all ages.
Chapter 61The office of Christ: the mission of the Apostles; the happiness of their converts.
Chapter 62The prophet will not cease from preaching Christ: to whom all nations shall be converted: and whose Church shall continue for ever.
Chapter 63Christ's victory over his enemies: his mercies to his people: their complaint.
Chapter 64The prophet prays for the release of his people; and for the remission of their sins.
Chapter 65The Gentiles shall seek and find Christ, but the Jews will persecute him, and be rejected, only a remnant shall be reserved. The Church shall multiply, and abound with graces.
Chapter 66More of the reprobation of the Jews, and of the call of the Gentiles.

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